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LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1941, Page 823

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Publication Matters 823

dable way, and Dr. E. Seuel, its manager, has always been
to help, by word and deed, toward the successful performance
Board’s important work. The books recommended by your
‘are listed in a special “Catalog of Literature for Young
yeople and Adults,” which a large number of pastors, teachers,
STC y-school superintendents, and others are using to supply
r, young people with books that do not offend youthful readers.
During the past triennium your Board has met in regular ,
ons to consider such items as were submitted to it for examina-
“py our Publishing House. Owing to a number of causes,
ér: books are now being submitted by publishing concerns, and
- Board, to save money, has not filled the vacancy created by
re. demise of Rev. A. G. Merz. The present members of the Board
e:. Prof. J. Theodore Mueller, Th. D., chairman; Rev. Geo. Luecke,
etary; Teachers L. H. Becker and V.C. Lang, all of St. Louis
a residing near the Seminary, where the meetings of the Board
5 held. In spite of the fact that great changes have occurred
in the book market, your Board feels that it ought to continue its
work, acting in its special field as Synod’s representative committee.
re may be changes in accidents, but substantially the work of
e Board always remains to be done. Just now, for example, your
d is examining special school books, submitted for collateral
g in history, nature-study, and the like, in order that our
achers may from the outset know what kind of book is being
red under this or that title. This work of the Board is entirely
ew, but your Board hopes to be able to publish longer lists of
ooks for school use in the course of time.
, .Your Board has tried very hard to discover writers having
ne time and talent to compose books, interesting and instructive,
#* which might take the place of those published by concerns whose
only object is to make money, and which therefore put out books
without any regard for the moral and spiritual welfare of the
*Feaders. But so far the search of your Board has been in vain,
and your Board again humbly submits the thought whether per-
haps Synod should not in some way encourage the training of
hristian writers who counteract the vicious tendencies represented
“in the ordinary books today. These books, roughly, may be divided
_ into three classes: 1. such as are fairly decent, interesting, and
instructive, but also carry an undertone of work-righteousness
and naturalistic religion (lodge religion) and take such matters

BY as dancing and other things which we cannot approve as altogether
“4 concern themselves with

‘proper and permissible; 2. such as
gsi nature-study, often in a most interesting, instructive, and. com-
= mendable way, but still have an evolutionistic background or

otherwise conflict with Scripture and the Confessions of our